Author: Siddharth Dalal

After my son started building his new game, several people approached us and asked how we did it. It all started with the original card game project using Asian parenting 101 : Psychological torture (you’ll grow up to be a dummy and all the kids from India and China will take all the jobs) Blackmail (do XYZ…

Since my last post on coding with my son, his game Blob Attack has come a long way. New graphics, more levels, a real leaderboard, somewhat proper signup and registration and now phone playability. This caused us to Google often and I got a lot of – “YOU don’t know how to do this?!” Thankfully…

Every time I read an article about teaching kids about investing or creating generational portfolios, Altria (MO), Exxon (XOM), Coke (KO) and McDonalds (MCD) seem to show up more often than not. Maybe this is because die-hard dividend investors are the ones trying to get their kids to invest or maybe it is because some…

In Part 3 of my series on Peak Oil in the US, I looked at the impact of electric vehicles on Oil consumption. The EV Sales chart in that post looked like this: In this scenario, I had EV sales of about 170,000 in 2018 growing to over 1 million in 2024. However, I currently…

Our second system was grid connected in February and we are now officially a net zero house. Our power bill is now negative with the last one cumulatively reaching over negative $1,000. We produced a lot more power than we consumed, however Dominion buys all that solar power. We buy back 100% of our usage in solar (Green…

Before you read my ramblings, here is Ahan’s blog post about the game. After our last attempt implementing the card game 7-8, this time around we set about making a game totally invented by Ahan called Blob Attack. It’s not yet complete, but playable now (visit his blog post for a link – seriously, no…

Seeking Alpha just published my article “Can Tesla’s Semi Truck Be Profitable?“. I look at the surprisingly low price of Tesla’s truck and break down what it would take to make the truck profitable. Also look at how Tesla can provide “MegaCharging” for only 7c/kWh guaranteed. I’m expecting the usual litany of comments calling me…

In my last two posts on the subject, I looked at the US light duty vehicle fleet and oil consumption followed by projections of oil consumption going forward based on extrapolating the past. This time I’m going to add electric cars to the equation to determine their impact. For this calculation, I’ll assume that a…

In my previous blog post on peak oil, I looked at historical oil consumption in the US and put that next to the fuel economy of the light duty auto fleet. In the article I did not consider vehicle miles driven and that was a potential source of the slight discrepancy between gasoline supply and…